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Monday, May 31, 2010
Mullen stresses Pakistan cooperation over US retaliation
WASHINGTON: US Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Chairman Admiral Mike Mullen said on Sunday that he is more concerned with Pakistani cooperation to tackle the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan than weighing military action against terrorists in Pakistan in retaliation for a terror attack in the US emanating from there. Mullen, appearing in Fox News Sunday said he was pleased with the increase in Pakistani military assistance in the region as NATO forces fight the Taliban and al Qaeda terrorists in the region. But he did not specify that whether the US had warned Pakistan that it would carry out strikes in the country if a terrorist attack happening in the US had roots in Pakistan. “I mean, we’re very concerned about that part of the world”, the top US military officer said. Separately, Mullen said that it would be clear by the year’s end whether a NATO-led counterinsurgency effort in the Afghan Taliban stronghold of Kandahar is successful. agencies
Courtesy www.dailytimes.com.pk